Glimpse

Glimpse is a Google Chrome extension which lets you take a quick glimpse at the mobile view of any Web page.

Installing from Store

The easiest way to install Glimpse is to do so from the Chrome Web Store.

Installing from Source

If you’d like to work on Glimpse:

Dependencies

• CoffeeScript
  • which requires npm
    • which is bundled with Node

Building

1. In a shell, navigate to the root of the project and run coffee -c js/*.coffee
   1. This compiles main.coffee into main.js

Installing

1. In Chrome, open chrome://extensions
2. Check “Developer mode” in the upper-right hand corner of the page
3. Click the button “Load unpacked extension…” which appears
4. Choose the directory containing the Glimpse source

Making Changes

1. In a shell, navigate to the root of the project and run coffee -wc js/*.coffee
   1. This will watch main.coffee and compile it into main.js whenever you save any changes
2. Whenever you make any changes and want to try them out:
   1. Open chrome://extensions
   2. Find Glimpse in the list of extensions
   3. Click the “Reload” link just under the Glimpse extension list entry

Copyright & License

Copyright 2013 Arc90, Inc.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use these files except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at:

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.